I'm still a bit confused by #1. why would you test the apple for cyanide? I haven't read Hodges. The story I've always heard is that Turing killed himself by

I'm still a bit confused by #1. why would you test the apple for cyanide? I haven't read Hodges. The story I've always heard is that Turing killed himself by eating a cyanide-laced apple. If that were the theory, it's obvious why you'd test the apple. So you seem to be saying that the apple theory was always bogus: because the evidence was that he killed himself by drinking a cyanide solution, there was no need to test the apple for cyanide any more than anything else in the room. Am I getting your point? (In which case it's odd that the apple story ever got going in the first place.)